According to police, this section of the busy thoroughfare was the scene of half of all injury-causing accidents in 2011 and 2012. Grimm said that most of these accidents occurred between noon and 8 p.m.

In order to quell the aggressive driving, the department applied for funding through the Aggressive Driving and Education Program.

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“This is a high traffic area that is conducive to speeding because of the downhill slope on a divided four-lane highway,” Grimm said.

With a decline in available funding, the department was unable to patrol Route 100 as often as it liked. The funding provided by the program gave the department a chance to increase their presence.

“Our goal was to make an impact on aggressive driving violators,” Grimm said about their application to the program.

Grimm said the aggressive driving detail was designed to catch the flagrant violators.

“We were not looking for the average driver who may have been 5 miles over the limit,” he said. “We were looking for the drivers who were 15 miles per hour and above.”

And the officers found those drivers.

Even with a sign posted at the intersection of Route 100 and Upland Square Drive, officers wrote 36 citations in four hours, according to Grimm.

“The speeds were slower than we expected, with a few exceptions,” Grimm said.

One of those exceptions was a green Mustang that clocked a jaw-dropping 119 mph.

Grimm could not say if that was a borough record, but he said it was the exception.

To determine a car’s speed, Grimm stood on a hill near the highway and used a Robic Timer.

Using the amount of time it took cars to travel .04 miles between two painted lines on the highway Grimm was able to determine the speed of passing cars.

After the calculation finished, Grimm would call out details about the car and possibly any driver information over the radio so the officers waiting could make contact with the correct car.

Around 4 p.m., all three officers had cars pulled over in a line on the shoulder of West King Street.

Included in the 36 citations written during the four hour detail, Grimm said the officers wrote four seat belt citations and at least four citations for invalid licenses.

“I believe this was a success because we stayed active the entire time,” Grimm said about the detail. “We were effective in the Route 100 corridor.”